Description

In Schubert for Two, violinist Gil Shaham and guitarist Göran Söllscher have assembled a remarkable
Schubertiade of familiar tunes from Vienna's bottomless well, all arranged for violin and guitar. This unusual pairing
is one with which Schubert was not unfamiliar (the fifteen dances from D 365 were arranged by him for flute or violin
and guitar) and it works. The piano in Schubert's day was a nimbler forebear to the modern industrial marvel of the
concert hall, more akin to the articulate, woody tone of the classical guitar.
At the violin, Shaham is his usual warm, assured self, tender, strong, and unfailingly limber, with the technique of ten
men: The double stops in the tastefully un-cloying reading of the "Ave Maria" are enough to make a student
head for the practice room and a virtuoso turn green. For his part, Söllscher is equally pristine on the guitar;
his tone is warm and his playing is solid, never a chip or a buzz.